Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

Ryan Paugh Hey all you Washington D.C. people!!! I want to start creating some Twitter Lists by city to help Brazen members connect w/ each other locally. I'm starting w/ Washington D.C. because I know that you all are an engaged bunch. So leave your Twitter ID as a reply below and we will make sure to add you to the Official Brazen D.C. Twitter List.

Scott Carver I preparing an email for potential clients. Some I have worked for previously through another firm. These clients trusted my work and requested my services a majority of the time. Some that that will receive it I haven't worked for. Question. Should the email basically be a mini-resume? Introducing myself, my company, my experience, my efficiencies etc. The business is PC/Network support. I've been doing this for 16 years for the Man. Time to be my own Man. The market is good in the area.

Alyson Kilday My partner and I have just opened up our own design agency. Though our new site is just going live as I type this we have had pretty good word of mouth and have kept busy. When we got our LLC we actually bartered with the lawyer in exchange for design work for his website, which saved us a bundle. Now the question I would like to post here is when and if a professional accountant is needed. And what should we look for?

Ed Barrientos Does anyone have a linguistic pet peeve? Mine is the use of "irregardless" I hear this non-stop in the business community...This is not real word! http://su.pr/2pfjBF

Boon Chew I'm not sure if this is a good place to put this - I've started being more active on a community of UX people called uxexchange.com and they have this rating system that's quite neat, involving points, badges, and a seniority based access level (similar to foursquare's) that gives you more power as you gain points. Wonder if it would work here on Brazen? Thoughts?

Ben Lopatin There must be two Mark Cuban blog posts being discussed; the one I read does not slam attorneys, accountants, their fees, or taxes, but matter of factly recognizes them as overhead. It's core thesis is a critique of *policy* that seeks objective X by policy A, which creates more bureaucratic conditions instead of policy B which merely removes existing bureaucratic impediments. I know of no businesses, my own or clients, which go out of their way to spend money on legal and accounting fees.

Christina Hey everyone, I am in need of some advice... I have been hard at work trying to start my business and now that i have some time to relax i am struggling to do so. Any tips on how to relax and enjoy some downtime?

Mariusz i'm trying to get my college to install open source web authoring software (aptana studio) to use with students. it struck me, that if they were taught to use it first before moving to any WYSWIG tools, they could produce more standard compliant and leaner code. Aptana doesn't work in visual mode, so they have to hard code everything. what do you think ?